Probing electric fields in protein cavities by using the vibrational stark effect of carbon monoxide

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1978-1990

  Lehle, Hartwig ^a   Kriegl, Jan M ^a   Nienhaus, Karin ^a   Deng, Pengchi ^a   Fengler, Stephanus ^a   Nienhaus, Gerd Ulrich ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; HEME; IRON; MUTANT PROTEIN; MYOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PARAMETER; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VIBRATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COLD; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; POROSITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WHALE;

ANIMALS; CARBON MONOXIDE; COLD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROSTATICS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MYOGLOBIN; POROSITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; VIBRATION; WHALES;

EID: 21244460042     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.048140     Document Type: Article

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